Fishes of the WorldJohn Wiley & Sons, 16. mar. 2016 - 752 strani Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only modern, phylogenetically based classification of the world’s fishes. The updated text offers new phylogenetic diagrams that clarify the relationships among fish groups, as well as cutting-edge global knowledge that brings this classic reference up to date. With this resource, you can classify orders, families, and genera of fishes, understand the connections among fish groups, organize fishes in their evolutionary context, and imagine new areas of research. To further assist your work, this text provides representative drawings, many of them new, for most families of fishes, allowing you to make visual connections to the information as you read. It also contains many references to the classical as well as the most up-to-date literature on fish relationships, based on both morphology and molecular biology. The study of fishes is one that certainly requires dedication—and access to reliable, accurate information. With more than 30,000 known species of sharks, rays, and bony fishes, both lobe-finned and ray-finned, you will need to master your area of study with the assistance of the best reference materials available. This text will help you bring your knowledge of fishes to the next level.
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... marine fishes through the exchange of reprints of publications, and particularly his landmark 1976 work, the first edition of Fishes of the World, which had been accepted by ichthyologists (and scientists in general) as the most ...
... Marine Species (WORMS), online academic libraries, journal publishers' web sites, the Paleobiology Database, and Fossilworks, all of which are available to almost any researcher, and all of which have been consulted by us. We also ...
... marine, diadromous, estuarine, or freshwater is impossible, except as a generalization. Just as in an otherwise marine family there may be one species confined to fresh water, so in some species there are populations that occur in an ...
... Marine fishes face the obvious land barriers (notably the New and Old World land masses) and mid-ocean barriers as well as many ecological and physiological barriers; freshwater species are limited by marine and land barriers. Some ...
... marine waters, the Indo-West Pacific (Red Sea and Indian Ocean to northern Australia and Polynesia) is the richest, with the most species occurring in the New Guinea to Queensland area. In terms of diversity, southeastern Africa and ...